118 6. English revenue. England derived a large revenue from the import duties on tobacco, and the trade in this commodity had been the subject of repeated regulation by Parliament. 118 19. Confound the innocent with the guilty. The argument had been advanced in debate. The active resistance of the colonies was still the work of a minority. 119 I. Quota. The amount apportioned to each colony. 119 14. Empire of Germany. Not to be confounded with the kingdom of Prussia. 119 24. Not be to their taste. In introducing his conciliatory resolution, Lord North had said that "it is very probable the propositions contained in this resolution may not be acceptable to the Americans in general." 120 15. Long discourse. The speech occupied three hours in delivery. 120 22. Mean to spare it. "Before the year 1775 closed, Burke must have spoken at least a dozen times more on America; and on November 16 he offered another bill for conciliating the colonies" (Lamont). 121 II. Posita luditur arca, the chest (i.e. the public revenue) is put at stake. From Juvenal, Satires, i. 90. 121 15. kingdom. Debt. Cited as proof of the financial strength of the 122 22. Ease would retract. Misquoted from Paradise Lost, iv. 96, 97. 122 26. The immense, ever-growing, eternal debt. Compare Paradise Lost, iv. 53. 123 11. Bengal. "An arrangement was, in 1769, made between the Administration and the East India Directors. The Company were to hold the territorial revenues of India for five years, they paying £400,000 annually into the Exchequer. But in 1770 the resources of India materially failed. There was a terrible famine in Bengal, in which it is supposed that one third of the inhabitants perished. In 1772 the Company declared a deficiency of above a million; obtained loans from the Bank of England to a large amount; and at last went to Parliament for aid. . . . In 1773 an act was passed by which £1,400,000 was lent to the Company; the payment of £400,000 per annum was postponed; and the dividend of the proprietors was restricted to 6 per cent. until the loan should be repaid" (Knight, History of England, vi. 334). 123 18. Foreign sale. Sale in foreign countries. Under the Navigation Acts colonial trade with Europe, Asia, and Africa had been compelled to pass through England. 124 9. 124 19. 124 27. Grapple. Compare Hamlet, i. 3. 63. Turn their faces. See 1 Kings viii. 44, 45. 125 10. Letters of office. Official letters. 125 10. Instructions. Governors and other crown officials in the colonies were constantly in receipt of instructions from the Lords of Trade or the Secretary of State. 125 11. Suspending clauses. Clauses or sections in statutes authorizing the suspension of the act, in whole or in part, under certain circumstances. 125: 22. Land Tax Act. The land tax was one of the most important sources of revenue in England. The reduction of the tax from 45. to 3s. in the pound, in 1766, created a deficiency in the revenue which the Townshend Revenue Act aimed to make good in part. 125:23. Annual vote. Appropriations for the support of the army are made annually. 125 24. Mutiny Bill. An act, also passed annually, providing for the maintenance of discipline by military law. 126 4. Profane herd. Compare Horace, Odes, iii. i. I: “I hate and banish hence the crowd profane" (Sargent's translation, 113). 126 13. All in all. Compare 1 Corinthians xv. 28. 126: 17. Auspicate. ence to the Roman auspices. A refer 126 19. Sursum corda. Lift up your hearts. A phrase used in the mass, and in the communion service of the Church of England, as the priest proceeds to the consecration of the elements. 126 22. High calling. Compare Philippians iii. 14. 127 3. Quod felix, etc. May it be happy and prosperous ! 127 12. Previous question. A formal motion, not debatable, used to end debate and bring about an immediate vote. 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